Avoid Evaluate in this case?

Question

I am invoking a webservice that returns Java entry arrays for
ldap user information.
To display the name from each entry i have this code:
<cfloop index="intIndex" from="0"
to="#arraylen(topOfOrg.getEntryArray().getEntry())-1#">
<cfoutput>#directReports.getEntryArray().getEntry(evaluate(intIndex)).getName()#</cfoutpu t>
</cfloop>
Should i avoid using evaluate in this case? And how could I
if it is an option?
Thanks for any thoughts/ideas.

Answer 1

Thanks all for the feedback/discussion.
I'm not an expert yet... just graduated with a bachelors in
business adminstation with a CIS focus in december. That means i
had about 3 programming classes and one web design class that had
about 4 weeks on coldfusion. But ever since i was exposed to
coldfusion i have enjoyed it. Landed a job after graduation as a
web master of a site with coldfusion 5.0 applications.
I recommened a new server and upgrade to coldfusion mx 7. And
started redesigning our site and applications. Its been fun and
challenging.
This week i had the idea to make a dynamic org chart. Our
corporation has a active directoy lookup web service, so I set out
to consume it in coldfusion. Took some trial and error but i got
consumption to work....
I don't know java well, but the web service documentation
said returns java entry array objects. Took some trial and error
again to get the data out of the objects once they were returned.
But got that working, then i expanded my querie to return multiple
arrays within the object so i had to loop over it (i assume this is
a resonably efficient way to get at each array).
My original logical line of code was to use:
<cfloop index="intIndex" from="0"
to="#arraylen(directReports.getEntryArray().getEntry())-1#">
<cfoutput>#directReports.getEntryArray().getEntry(intIndex).getName()#</cfoutput>
</cfloop>
This code returns this error: "The selected method getEntry
was not found."
coldfusion.runtime.java.MethodSelectionException: The
selected method getEntry was not found.
In response to that i set evaluate around the intIndex and it
worked, but i had read evaulate was a costly operation, so i asked
for help here. And got the excellent javacast alternative.
The webservice return variable is directreports, a java
object i believe, and it has a method to get to the result set of
EntryArray and then each array in the result set has methods to
reveal my data. Like name, work phone, job title, etc.
Its a simple application, but everyone loves it so far.
Thanks all!